Children And Social Competence: Arenas Of Action

by Ian Hutchby (Editor), Jo Moran-Ellis (Editor)

Overview

A text which addresses the relationship between childhood, competence and the social arenas of action in which children live their lives. Taking issue with the view that children are merely apprentice adults, the contributors develop a picture of children as competent, sophisticated social agents, focusing on the contexts which both enable and constrain that competence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750706513
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/03/1997
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Hutchby, Jo Moran-Ellis

Table of Contents

Situating children's social competency, Ian Huchby and Jo Moran-Ellis. Part 1 Competence and family structures: children and the family order, Leena Alanen; runaway street-children in Nepal, Rachel Baker; protest-despair- detachment, Helen Barratt. Part 2 Context for discourse competence: children's neo-rhetorical participation in peer interactions, Robert Sanders and Kurt Freeman; social and cognitive competencies in learning, Hilary Gardner; children's participation in the discourse of children's television, Joanna Thornborrow. Part 3 Competence and institutional knowledge: restoring social order in the preschool classroom, Susan Danby and Carolyn Baker; difference and similarity, Pia Haudrup Christensen; being a child in care, Gerald de Montigny; the case of the silent child, David Silverman, Carolyn Baker and Jane Keogh.

Editorial Reviews

Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, social psychology, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis, this volume explores the many facets of social competence in children's ordinary lives, with a focus on the arenas of social action that both enable and constrain that competence. The volume is divided into three sections: competence and the family order; competence in discourse and interaction; and competence and institutional knowledge. Examples are drawn from settings ranging from peer play groups and children's TV shows to state-run children's homes and parent-teacher interviews. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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